KJV:
Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
NASB:
You have put me in the lowest pit, In dark places, in the depths.
KJV:
Hear me speedily, O LORD: my spirit faileth: hide not thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.
NASB:
Answer me quickly, O LORD, my spirit fails; Do not hide Your face from me, Or I will become like those who go down to the pit.
KJV:
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
NASB:
Let us swallow them alive like Sheol, Even whole, as those who go down to the pit;
KJV:
Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
NASB:
Drink water from your own cistern And fresh water from your own well.
KJV:
A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.
NASB:
A man who is laden with the guilt of human blood Will be a fugitive until death; let no one support him.
KJV:
Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
NASB:
Remember Him before the silver cord is broken and the golden bowl is crushed, the pitcher by the well is shattered and the wheel at the cistern is crushed;
KJV:
Yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit.
NASB:
"Nevertheless you will be thrust down to Sheol, To the recesses of the pit.
KJV:
But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.
NASB:
"But you have been cast out of your tomb Like a rejected branch, Clothed with the slain who are pierced with a sword, Who go down to the stones of the pit Like a trampled corpse.
KJV:
And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
NASB:
They will be gathered together Like prisoners in the dungeon, And will be confined in prison; And after many days they will be punished.
KJV:
Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;
NASB:
'Do not listen to Hezekiah,' for thus says the king of Assyria, 'Make your peace with me and come out to me, and eat each of his vine and each of his fig tree and drink each of the waters of his own cistern,